Brendan Rodgers wants to return to Swansea City but says it is a question of ‘timing’.

The Northern Irishman was approached about a return to the club he led to the Premier League after Garry Monk was sacked last month.

But while he rejected that move, citing a desire to sit out the remainder of the season following his Liverpool exit, the Welsh club will return with a fresh offer in the summer.

Brendan Rodgers said he would like to return to Swansea at some point when talking on Goals on Sunday

Rodgers turned down the Swansea job this season

When asked about the possibility of a second spell at the Liberty Stadium, Rodgers told Goals on Sunday: ‘I said when I left that maybe at some stage in my career and life I would be back there again.

‘It is an incredible club. It is just going to be about the timing. It is a great city, a great club and from where I left it, it has really moved on.’

Monk was sacked in December, just months after leading the club to their highest Premier League finish.

Alan Curtis took over as caretaker and has been confirmed as interim manager until the end of the campaign, with Swansea in desperate trouble in the bottom three and winless in three in the league.

Rodgers, a close ally of Monk, added: ‘I think Garry was probably unfortunate to lose his job. We have seen the expectancy on managers. It just came out of the blue really. But no one knows the club better than Alan Curtis.

Rodgers led Swansea to the Premier League in 2011, before leaving to join Liverpool a year later

Rodgers said Garry Monk was 'probably unfortunate to lose his job' but turned down the chance to replace him

‘He is a great guy, a great man, he will be supportive of the players. But they will know they have a fight between now and the end of this season, which is a shame because they have always been fairly comfortable in the league.

‘It’s a wonderful club. Huw Jenkins (the chairman) is a great man, Martin Morgan (the owner) and the guys that run the club have always made the right decisions. They will see Alan as the best one at this time to save them and then look at it in the summer.’

Swansea host Watford on Monday having won only once in 11 Premier League games. Sunderland are understood to have made an offer for Andre Ayew but Swansea are determined not to sell.

A Newcastle move for Bafetimbi Gomis is also unlikely to succeed, with Swansea willing to sell the striker but not to a relegation rival, having already sent Jonjo Shelvey to St James’ Park.

The former Liverpool boss says interim boss Alan Curtis is a 'great guy and a great man'

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Brendan Rodgers keen to return to Swansea but timing was not right to rejoin 'incredible club' when Garry Monk was sacked